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PRETI, Mattia

PRETI, Mattia Christ in Glory afg oil painting on canvas
Christ in Glory afg
Painting ID::  8668
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PRETI, Mattia Christ in Glory afg oil painting on canvas



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  PRETI, Mattia
  Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1613-1699 Italian painter and draughtsman. Although he was trained and had his first success as a painter in Rome during the 1630s and 1640s, he is traditionally associated with the Neapolitan school. It was in Naples between 1653 and 1660 that he made his most lasting mark (see fig. 1), contributing to the evolution of the exuberant late Baroque style and providing an important source of inspiration to later generations of painters, notably to Francesco Solimena. From 1661 he was based in Malta, where his most substantial undertaking was the decoration of St John's, Valletta. Preti's mature style is intensely dramatic and unites a Caravaggesque realism and expressive chiaroscuro with the grandeur and theatricality of Venetian High Renaissance painting.
  Christ in Glory afg
  c. 1660 Oil on canvas, 220 x 253 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid

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